The Tokyo-based architects Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA have designed a breathtaking facility that will feature beautifully proportioned galleries, a theater, an education floor, our renowned New Museum Store, a café, a top floor event space with roof terraces, and more.

The New Museum building on the Bowery will have the presence of a gravity defying sculpture sited at a pivotal geographic and cultural intersection in New York’s urban fabric, along the storied thoroughfare where several of the city’s most distinctive communities meet and generations of artists have lived, worked, and contributed to the ongoing cultural dialogue of the nation. Clad in a silvery, anodized expanded aluminum mesh and punctuated by windows and skylights that offer vistas and vignettes of the city, the building’s form was conceived to express the ever-changing dynamic of the art and ideas to be presented within. Dramatic full floor, column-free exhibition spaces will occupy three main gallery levels. The building will also house a 180-seat theater, classrooms, an education center, and a top-floor events space with rooftop terraces offering panoramic views of the city. The broad, light-washed ground floor space - named the Marcia Tucker Hall in honor of the New Museum’s late founder - will be an animated public space where visitors will find the Museum’s acclaimed store, a sleek café, and a glass walled lobby gallery lit by daylight from a setback above.


The New Museum is New York's only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art. As an international art capital, the City is long overdue for the world class contemporary art museum. Opening: December 1, 2007.